EndNote

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EndNote is an electronic reference management application that allows you to quickly generate citations and bibliographies. With its Cite While You Write integration with Word, Pages, and Open Office Writer, and its 3,900+ styles to choose from, EndNote makes bibliographies easy.

EndNote is available to the DePaul students, faculty, and staff to use when writing academic papers. It is available in all computer labs and for your personal computers as a free download. Versions are available for both Windows and Mac computers.

Troubleshooting

If you are prompted during the installation to enter a product key, you probably skipped step 5. If you do not extract the zip file before opening the installation file, EndNote will not recognize the license key. If this happens, go back to step 5.

Getting Started with EndNote X7

Save time by importing references directly from the DePaul library databases​.
Bear in mind that our setup here at DePaul requires you to search in a
database and then export your citations into EndNote. You cannot open
EndNote and access our database subscriptions directly.

Alternatives to EndNote

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself. It's also possible to take advantage of the best features of each, or to share Zotero libraries with colleagues using EndNote or vice versa. Both programs can read and write a standard citation file format called RIS, which means references can be converted back and forth. For more information and instructions visit Zotero.

Microsoft Word has its own citation and bibliography generation tool. Although it is not as powerful and flexible as EndNote or Zotero, the fact that it is built right into your word processor makes it easy and convenient to use.

Alternatives to EndNote

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself. It's also possible to take advantage of the best features of each, or to share Zotero libraries with colleagues using EndNote or vice versa. Both programs can read and write a standard citation file format called RIS, which means references can be converted back and forth. For more information and instructions visit Zotero.

Microsoft Word has its own citation and bibliography generation tool. Although it is not as powerful and flexible as EndNote or Zotero, the fact that it is built right into your word processor makes it easy and convenient to use.